• Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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    Injection injuries are exceedingly rare. And, because there is a great benefit to everyone around us, we want to ensure that anything that is unpredictable is adequately reimbursed and supported. Nothing we do in medicine is without risks. The damage done to individuals and society as a whole is greater by not developing hurd immunity through Injections.

    Welcome to public health. Humans are incredibly bad at understanding risk off the top of the head. That’s why we’ve developed methods and statistics to try and understand what is best practice.

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      If there is a great benefit to all people by getting injected without any disclosure of ingredients from companies making billions of dollars, how is there people who have never had an injection in their whole life still walking around and performing work duties without it?

      If some people were killed and disabled by the injections, and others are doing fine with the injections, along with those who never got it were killed and others who have never had it are living successful lives, where is the benefit to getting it if people are living happily without it?

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        Because that’s how a society functions, and that’s how vaccines work.
        When a vaccine is effective against a pandemic, it prevents it from spreading. If there are not enough places for the virus to live, or it can’t get to a new place to continue living… it dies out.
        There is a tipping point where enough people have been vaccinated that the virus can’t proliferate… which means people at risk from rare side effects of vaccination don’t have to be vaccinated.
        People have undiagnosed health issues and end up in hospital from roller coasters or from tying their shoes.

        Like how deforestation drives species to extinction. There are still forests around, but the species that go extinct can’t get to another forest and end up dying.
        Except vaccination has the positive effect of saving lives, whereas deforestation just ruins ecologies.

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          Then people are correct to reject any and all vaccines and see what the results are. Anti-vaxers will have a healthier, stronger, robust immune system.

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    I’m surprised it’s as high as 6%. I would have expected anti-vaxxers to flood programs like this with bogus claims well more than 94% of all claims.

    Major complications from vaccines are exceptionally rare. It’s not at all surprising that there are very few successful claims that it’s happened. It doesn’t happen much.

    Compared with the loss of life and livelihood from acute and long COVID, a tiny chance of vaccine side effects are an easy price to pay. For every 1 person injured by a vaccine, hundreds or thousands are prevented from catching disease with long-term symptoms.

    Smallpox is extinct because of vaccines, and polio was on the brink of extinction before COVID messed up vaccine distribution programs.

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      Given your unwavering blind faith in injections, it sounds like vaccines is your new religion to which you have sworn your allegiance, all hail the power of vaccines from billionaire corporations!

      Death from a illness or a virus is not the worst thing that can happen to a person, there are worse things than dying. People must accept the fact that noi matter what they do they are going die, it’s only a question of when death is coming for you and no person can ever escape it. There are still bigger and more important concerns in life than dying.